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Managed Care July 2006 Martin Sipkoff	Employers' Stock in Wellness Rises With No End in Sight Formerly, insurers used to devise new products and processes to attract purchasers. Now more and more employers are going to the plans and insisting on preventive care.
Managed Care March 2007 Lola Butcher	Care Management Data Hard to Come By Employee health management programs are well received, for the most part, even though it is still hard to measure their value.
Managed Care October 2004 MargaretAnn Cross	More Plans Discover Value of Health Risk Assessments The Health Risk Assessment is not a new tool, but it is getting new respect. Often prodded by employers, health plans are increasingly identifying at-risk populations.
Managed Care August 2004 MargaretAnn Cross	Spend Money on Healthy People! The accepted insurance model is to provide care intended to make sick people well. There are new arguments that small investments in persuading people to live healthier lifestyles will result in large reductions in cost in later years.
Managed Care February 2008 Michael Levin-Epstein	Federal and State Governments Pressed to Give Tax Breaks For Wellness Initiatives Legislators are being urged to reward companies that provide programs for their workers, but success has been mixed
Managed Care December 2004 MargaretAnn Cross	When Your Employees Are Your Focus Group It can be a tough sell when a health care company has a promising but untested new plan design. Here's a way around that problem.
Managed Care June 2007	Employers Gear up for More Employee Health Management Employers have a clear interest in expanding initiatives to help workers manage their personal health effectively, according to a survey.
Managed Care June 2004 MargaretAnn Cross	CDC Begins To Provide Resources for Workplace Wellness Programs As employers become more comfortable with the idea that prevention pays, health plans may find their scope of services widening.
Managed Care April 2004 MargaretAnn Cross	Medical Directors Find Themselves Working More Closely With Payers As large companies become more demanding of health plans, clinical executives are increasingly being relied on to provide advice and expertise.
Managed Care June 2007 Lola Butcher	Big Companies Holding Fast To Employer-Sponsored System In board rooms across the country, decisions are being made to battle, rather than run from, rising costs of health care.
Job Journal January 13, 2008 Michael Kinsman	Career Pros: Wellness Benefits Bottom Line Employers are finally acting like healthy workers are good for business.
Managed Care June 2006	Survey: Workers Not Guided When Choosing Care A study shows employers believe their workers can learn what they need to know to become better buyers of health services.
Managed Care February 2008 John Marcille	The Wellness Train Is Leaving; Are You on Board? Wellness is riding high, and health plans should consider using their expertise, data resources, and business connections to design programs that will appeal to buyers.
Managed Care August 2007 Frank Diamond	Employers Roll Up Their Sleeves No longer passive, companies are working in a variety of ways to improve employees' care. Preventive programs cost money up front, but can cut overall treatment costs to insurers by 30 percent or more, yet few insurers pay for preventive care.
Managed Care April 2006 Lola Butcher	Financial Incentives Increasingly Promote Healthy Lifestyles Fifty bucks to fill out a questionnaire, a discount on a membership at the gym -- these are some ways to get health plans are getting members to make a commitment to a healthy lifestyle.
IndustryWeek September 1, 2008 Jonathan Katz	A Healthy Approach to Going Lean Corporate wellness programs encourage employees to manage their health.
Entrepreneur November 2006 Chris Penttila	Paying the Price The rising cost of health care could lead to surcharges.
Managed Care November 2005 MargaretAnn Cross	Health Plans by Design, Not by Default Fortune 500 employers are ready to shed old benefit models for "managed consumerism".
Managed Care February 2008 John Carroll	What's the ROI on Wellness? A few major corporations, sometimes with the assistance of a traditional health plan, have made significant efforts to improve employee lifestyles.
Managed Care February 2005 MargaretAnn Cross	Big Companies Push For Better Online Tools Now that large companies are adding health information to their benefit portals on the Web, insurers will have to work more closely with them.
Managed Care February 2004	Employers see cost-shifting efforts pay off In the fall of 2002, as employers were getting their first 2003 rates from the health plans, they were looking at a 14-percent increase," says Blaine Bos, one of the study's authors. "Then they took out their scalpel.... In 2003, employers took back lost ground."
CFO February 15, 2006 Melissa Hennessy	Putting a Premium on Health Employers are giving workers a new reason to get in shape: cash. Does this trend create a legal slippery slope of employers targeting anyone who might develop health problems?
Managed Care February 2008 Frank Diamond	You Will Live Healthily! Employers want to do everything within the law to make workers change their lifestyles, and they expect health plans to help
IndustryWeek January 1, 2008	The Win-Win of Wellness in the Workplace Even the simplest of programs offer clear benefits for companies and their employees.
Managed Care January 2004	Large Employers Now Use DM To Cut Their Costs Employers are adopting disease management programs in a big way to slow the pace of health care premium increases, according to a survey of 3,000 businesses.
Managed Care December 2003 MargaretAnn Cross	'What Can You Do To Help Control Costs?' Employers are beginning to tap into the groundswell of employee interest in reducing premiums.
CFO February 22, 2005 Ilan Mochari	Belt-tightening Can coaxing employees to live healthy lives help keep the bottom line in shape?
Managed Care November 1999 Steve Wetzell	To Cure Risk Aversion, Employers Eye Risk Adjustment ...The more employers can get consumers involved in the game, the more providers will become directly accountable to consumers. Under traditional managed care, employers -- without realizing it -- have put themselves in the middle of the relationship between physicians and their patients...
IndustryWeek January 1, 2008 Adrienne Selko	National Business Group on Honors Best Employers for Healthy Lifestyles The National Business Group on Health, a national non-profit organization recognized on May 9 more than three dozen U.S. employers for their continuing efforts to promote healthy work environments and encourage workers to live healthier lifestyles.
BusinessWeek November 5, 2007 Jena McGregor	Sweat More, Pay Less Principal Financial Group launched a health-care insurance product that asks participants with health risks to try to shape up or pay more.
Fast Company Jared Lindzon	Why One-Size-Fits-All Health Initiatives Don't Work While most American companies continue to pursue one-size-fits-all corporate wellness engagements, some have already begun implementing a more personalized approach.
Pharmaceutical Executive October 1, 2006	Sales and Marketing: Where the Buck Stops Pharma's ultimate customer is the employer - the guy who pays the health plan's bill. Here's what he wants to know about drugs.
Managed Care December 2002 MargaretAnn Cross	Advisory Boards Create Company-Plan Cooperation Very effective if used properly, these panels are not yet widespread. However, that could change as industrial customers demand more input.
Managed Care May 2002 Sharon Baker	Self-Funded HMOs on the Rise Escalating premiums, changing attitudes play a role in employers' decision to take on the same thing that burned many physicians: financial risk
Financial Planning July 1, 2010 Jeanne Lee	The Sky Is Not Falling Small business clients have been hard-hit by increased healthcare expenditures over the past 10 years, so it's not surprising that the healthcare reform bill has many of them anxious and confused.
BusinessWeek October 7, 2009 Catherine Arnst	Health Costs: Steeper Still Workers will bear a greater share of soaring premiums in 2010, but employers take a hit, too.
Managed Care November 2006 Lola Butcher	Manipulating Deductibles To Foster Healthful Behavior Increasing employee deductible levels to encourage workers to be better health care consumers has become old hat. But how about this: tying an employee's deductible level to health status?
IndustryWeek March 1, 2009 Jonathan Katz	Worksite Clinics Gain in Popularity In-house or near-site medical offices could reduce healthcare costs.
Job Journal October 12, 2008 Michael Kinsman	Career Pros: Benefits a Big Deal at Small Firms When it comes to perks, smaller employers need to think big.
Managed Care August 2007 John Marcille	Are Purchasers Now The Ones With the Vision? Employers have been doing much more to improve worker health.
Managed Care December 2007 Lola Butcher	From Consumer-Directed to Consumer-Driven Many new programs offered by insurers bet that individuals, not employers, will one day be making the major decisions.
Job Journal December 16, 2007 Michael Kinsman	Career Pros: Obesity's Heavy Burden Eying bottom line, employers start to tally costs of overweight workers.
CFO February 1, 2008 Randy Myers	Rethinking Health Care Can more employee choice actually lower costs?
Managed Care March 2001 Michael D. Dalzell	Preventive Care: Can We Do a Better Job? HMOs place great stock in disease prevention, but some highly recommended services go uncovered. Plans and purchasers often don't agree on priorities...
CFO February 1, 2009 Josh Hyatt	Prognosis: Negative Rising health-care premiums have companies shifting costs, pushing "wellness," and punishing unhealthy behavior.
IndustryWeek January 1, 2008 Adrienne Selko	Employers Offering Financial Rewards for Healthy Behavior Almost half of companies interviewed offer financial incentives to help workers improve health.
Managed Care October 2000	Employer-based coverage up in strong economy Health insurance premiums rose 8.3 percent over the past year for all types of coverage, according to an annual survey of employers...
Inc. April 2006 Dee Gill	Get Healthy...Or Else Employers are getting a lot more serious about their wellness programs. But can you tell employees they're not allowed to smoke -- even at home?
Managed Care January 2007 John Carroll	Erosion of Employer-Sponsored Health Care: Bad for Everyone More companies are offering less coverage - or none at all. Even those that offer coverage find that more of their workers choose not to sign up.